What’s a decent way to use the 8 bay icy dock nvme m.2 in a raid 10. I need the access speed. I have been looking at the 8k epic 16 core or 8 core. With something that I can run one bay off the broadcom 16x card. Mentioned here. I’m lost I just know the speed is nice even with the Intel setup with 4 of the 990 evo plus 1tb drives in raid 10. It’s going to run an SQL server that is currently struggling with a single 8tb Toshiba mechanical hd. I can get pn but I’m diving into an area that is new but current situation has presented this opportunity. I’ll be duplicating it for home use to do testing on also. Should be fun either way. Im older and out of touch lately. The consumer market is seriously lacking this new tech at scale. So I got a taste and just need a direction. I use gigabyte boards for my home builds and prefer AMD going back to when Intel killed the Celeron 300a.
I am not quite getting what you have and where you want to be.
So you have an SQL-Server running with a single 8TB HDD.
You want some other server based on NVMe?
Important question: Home or Business?
Consider the following for elaborate home use:
x16 slot, bifurcation, 4 SSDs as some sort of storage pool:
SQL-backup to some internal HDD or SSD every 3 hours (or shorter, depending on how critical this is).
And please buy or piece together a real server for business use, including an automated backup!
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